Alison Krauss Quotes

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

Little moments of excitement shape the sound of a record. You don't have anything, and then you start to have little parts that give you the energy to move forward because you start to see something.

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

Every time I go into the studio, it's some next level, man.

I'm never not in the studio creating; it's like my second home.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.